J While Thq'to with Us
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
\ y XYZIjni01^9) The Winslow Mail '"tUßeMeteor City * OFFICIAL ORGAN OF CITY OF WINSLOW AND THE ARIZONA LIVESTOCK SANITARY % YiurTntcrcst is Here BOARD WINSLOW, NAVAJO COUNTY, FRIDAY, VOLUME 34 ARIZONA. MAY 29, 1925 NUMBER 27 TOURISTS ALMOST jV >' WILLIAMS WILL BIDS FOR GAS FREEZE TO DEATH il HAVE AIR SHOW CIRCUS ON CANYON ROAD ON JUNE TENTH FLYING At least one party of tourists who 11 The Chamber of Commerce of TO SUM visited Arizona this spring will re- i ! Williams is sponsoring an air show IN PLANT for the dedication of Webber field CONNECTION member to the last day of their ¦ for Wednesday, June 10, to which lives their experience while here. Winslow folk are cordially invited. People start on auto trips to find Williams people were generous in 0F532,357 interesting and unusual experi- their attendance at the Winslow show May 16 WITH on and 17. and it is RACES ences, and to enjoy the thrills that hoped that as many as can from come from meeting unusual circum- this city will attend the Williams stances and overcoming dangers exhibition. and hardships of the trails, and to !; Williams has prepared an inter- ACCEPTED esting program of aerial in AI ARE stunts HOLBROOK party of easterners, consisting of a which civilian and army planes will three elderly men, a participate, many of who Contracts to the amount of $32,- the flyers Nine entrants posted boy of 14 and a girl of 10, came were in Winslow two weeks ago forfeits 357 were let by the City council at this week to appear- an adventure reminiscent of what stating while here that they would insure their a session Wednesday afternoon for take part in the dedication of Web- ance on the Highland Park race the pioneers of sixty years ago had ber the greater part of the equipment field. The officers from Rock- track at Holbrook Sunday after- ito undergo. well Field and Fort Bliss'xmd pos- to be installed at the new gas noon to take part in j The adventure was not exactly sibly other military planes will be the fifty-mile plant, for which $50,000 in bonds j jwhat easterners would expect in in Williams on that date. automobile race. They are Jack was voted in March. The call for ' Arizona. Instead of being lost on I The program includes a race Cousins and Ralph M. Miller, both a burning desert, far from water, around Bill mountain bids, issued several weeks ago, Williams by of Winslow, the former with a being overcome with the heat, and army planes, battle formation fly- Laurel special closed Tuesday night, at which the rest of the traditional Arizona and the latter with ing, bomb dropping contests by the ® a Studebaker special; Tony time the council met and discussed deprivations, these people almost navy Yurie, De Havilands, nonstop race to Gallup, Hudson special; A. C. all bids. A recess was taken, how- sufered death by freezing, being- El Tovar hotel Smy- j on the rim of the ers, Gallup, Cadillac special; Jess ever, until the following afternoon lost in the dense pine forest of Grand Canyon, wing walking exhi- Gaddis. Flagstaff, Coconino county a rain and Studebaker spe- before any was I j during bition and a parachute drop by Ted cial; T. V. Long, definite action had. snow storm which bound their two Flagstaff. Essex j O. Penney, who made the beautiful special; C. W. Jerome, The bids called for a 50,000-cubic | j automobiles on the Grand Canyon parachute jump Byerly, Ford in Winslow, as a special; T. Caminetti, Phoenix, foot highway during the blizzard of program foot holder, one 10,000-cubic climax to the on the local Dodge special, and J. Flanigan, April 23, E. gas generator with washer, scrub- | 24 and 25. field. Holbrook, Studebaker special. j The account of their adventure ber and purifier; one electric The condition Highland driv-I| and rescue was given to The Mail of the Aviators Park track and the proven skill of en booster, one steam turbine driv- 1 Jack O’Brien, Santa Fe train- | Return From by all the entrants event en exhauster and blower, two plun- man, who at time was enjoying in the fore- the Gallup to Show Here one of the ger pumps, a quantity of fittings a week’s vacation on his ranch at ; tel], most exciting and and wrought iron pipe, and the lay- | thrilling races ever seen in this Spring valley and visiting with a ! Aviators Tex Rankin and C. M. ; state. ing of foundations for the machin- brother, Mike O’Brien, who owns A , Mayse returned Tuesday from Gal- | Four other racing events are ery. ranch in same valley. lup, where they had been showing on the ¦ | the program. There will be a five- Contract for gas holder was let, Early the afternoon of April for several in days. Mayse was ac-. mile race for stock Fords; a after considerable discussion, for party Grand Canyon via While Us contpanied by five- 23 the left With Ted O. j Penney, para- i mile race for six-cylinder stock $14,300 to Stacy Brothers Gas com- the Maine highway. The eight peo- ThQ'to chute jumper and wing walker, | j cars; pany, of Cincinnati, whose repre- a five-mile race for four-cyl- ple were traveling together in two while W. Quinn, who appeared here inder stock cars, and an sentative at the meeting wks J. J. and Packard. during Australian cars, a Paige a Let us all join in honoring them. In a few short years the celebration, has gone to i pursuit race for racing Taylor. Several bids were received Among members of the party were ; cars only. Chicago. The aviators have been j An Australian pursuit race con- on this piece of equipment, which federal of North Dakota, and a judge a'| making flights carrying pas-; sists of all the entrants, generally was the largest single item includ- from in Winslow this week. I United States marshal Wis-.J at most, those yet with us willhave gone to join the ranks sengers four, being spaced equidistant ed in the plans for the plant. All a novelist and Tomorrow both machines will go eonsin, magazine around the track. At the crack of other figures were much higher -writer from New York, and a writer to Holbrook, where exhibition than that of Stacy Brothers, with the starter’s pistol they start on from Los Angeles. of the invisible hosts which preceded them, so we have flights have been contracted for in i their grind, each car the the exception of one by the Chicago cold and but | pursuing The day was windy, connection with the auto races Sun- j one immediately ahead. As a car is Bridge and Iron Works, which was ' there but that the cars ! j was no idea day afternoon. From Holbrook the passed it retires from the race, hnd S6OO lower than the original pro- could through to Maine with- airmen will Williams get only a little time in which to show to the remaining few three, go to to | the car passing keeps going until posal of Stacy Brothers. However, out However, when about take difficulty. T>art in the dedication of Web- it passes on track, or until Mr. Taylor, after making some ad- canyon, ! j all the an hour out from the rain ber air field on June 10. j it is passed, when it must retire. justments in the order, brought his and snow began to fall. Instead of ; appreciation of their wonderful service the nation. our to The race may be five miles or fifty. price within S4OO of the Chicago turning back, the drivers attempted j company’s figure, and the council There is but one prize, the winner to get through to the National Old [local being the one who decided to accept it, since the YOUNG LADYI; passes all the Stacy Trails highway. When still about j cars on holder is built with twice the num- ! I ,other the track. | twenty miles from Maine, the cars j r Besides the ber of stays and guying devices, ! MEMBER OF ! racing events, a fly- • stuck in the mud, and the rapidly j LARGE; j ing circjus wiL] be held making it a more practical tank for obliterated all F!ie Winslow Mail with Pilots falling snow soon |j Charles Mayse and Tex Rankin, withstanding the prevailing winds of the road. They GRADUATING traces could i CLASS; both well-known in Winslow, tak- of Winslow. j neither go forward nor back. The j ! ing part, and Ted O. Penney, who The Crane company, which was road maps had no I they showed j : Miss Gladys Helen Vorce, daugh-1 travels with Mayse, putting on a represented by C. F. Cummings, of signs of habitation between Maine ! I || : ter of Mrs .M. M .Vorce of Winslow, ! j wing-walking stunt, to be followed Phoenix, received the contract for and Grand Canyon. There was no will graduate with honors — iby a drop. This the boiler at $2,738, pipe at $2,344 I on; parachute addi- food in the party other than a few j jWednesday, June 3, at Colorado I tion to the auto races at Holbrook and fittings at $844. Several other cookies and one or two cans of i State Teachers College, Greeley, received all items be- Navajo jwill constitute a big show in it- bids were on ; fruit. Indian Dances Colo., of class sides the I TWO SENTENCED TO I FAST GAME FOR a piember the largest |; self, and with the races and other accepted ones.